Dr. Naomi Shaban

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also stand up to add my voice to congratulate the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on the Report on Sessional Paper No.3 of 2013 on the National Productivity Policy. Whereas it is very good for the Government to have a policy on this, I have a few concerns on the issues which have been affecting our country, where productivity is concerned. If you look at the productivity index, it is less than one and to be competitive globally, you require an index of, at least, five. That is of major concern. ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: professionals in the medical department being trained and taking off from our country simply because we are not absorbing them. We require them to work within this country and yet, at the same time, we are not absorbing them as fast as they are being trained and, so they are forced to run elsewhere and give their services. We can only work so much but we need to look at how we are going to retain our human resource for us to be productive maximally. I thank you and I beg to support. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to add my voice in supporting the Report on the Sessional Paper No.4 of 2013 and the National Employment Policy. What has really excited me about this policy that the Government is putting in place is the issue of having a National Employment Authority. There are laws which protect our children and yet child labour is the order of the day. Everybody looks aside even when they know that children who are supposed to be in school are instead being misused by Kenyans. The National Employment Policy will look into all ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: These things will bring us together. We should look into issues that concern our Kenyan youths, so that they can study courses that they qualified in, join professions that are useful to this country and then they can get the right employment. The other day, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) had indicated the minimum wage that our domestic assistants should be earning and yet public servants of the lowest cadres do not earn as much as domestic assistants. How are they supposed to pay the domestic assistants? The National Employment Authority is going to harmonise ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to second this Motion on Sessional Paper No. 9 of 2013 on National Cohesion and Integration. Prior to everything up to where we have reached, we had several items in the agenda that were discussed following the Post-Election Violence (PEV) of 2007 to January, 2008. They culminated in the promulgation of our Constitution in August, 2010 which has put very many things in place that need to be followed. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: This Sessional Paper should have been brought here yesterday and not today. However, it is here and some of the things that have been spelt out in it are being implemented. If you can recall, after the PEV when the agenda under the National Accord were being discussed, one of the issues that was being tackled ended up giving us the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) which has played a role. However, I do not think that they have played the maximum role that they were supposed to play. They have gone a long way in trying to solve ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Devolution is one of the things that were put under Agenda Four in the Constitution so that we can devolve and people can make decisions at the county level. It is sad that, today, nobody is looking at the fact that the law is being flouted. Governors and their County Service Boards have refused to do the right thing. You will see that people can even converse in their mother tongue in a meeting and that would be quite in order because they all speak the same language. It is sad that even though the Constitution has sought to look ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: The law is very clear that 30 per cent of the jobs are meant for people who are marginalised in every county. Even communities which are larger elsewhere but are small in every county should also be given an opportunity to serve in those County Executive positions. If the law is very clear, why have we not seen any steps being taken towards solving this problem which is the main problem everywhere? We stand here, complain and talk about it at the national level without really looking at what is happening in our own counties. I believe this Sessional Paper ... view
• 30 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Historical injustice has been a bone of contention. I believe the intention of the President and the Deputy President is to take us from there. However, we must also live by example even at the national level by showing that even our offices have a national outlook. Even here in Parliament, can we have a national outlook amongst the staff so that we can work together as Kenyans? I beg to second this Sessional Paper. view
• 29 Jul 2015 in National Assembly: Yes. view